Chapter 121: The Treasure of Emperor Xuan
A few steps into the cave stands a stone tablet with the warning "Trespasser dies" engraved on it. The light passed the stele, and the cracked passage between the rock walls was tortuous, and the situation inside could not be seen at all.
Ning Tao was a little worried, "Will there be any organ traps, or magic circles?"
Xuan Tianzi's Taoism is profound, and old demons like Yin Molan are very jealous, and even say that he has ascended to immortality. If his cave is equipped with traps and magic circles, the danger index will be unusually high.
But it's all here, it's impossible to turn around and dodge people just because you see the sentence "Trespasser dies", right?
Ning Tao stepped over the stone tablet with his mobile phone, and walked carefully into the depths of the cave. The lights flickered, and the sound of footsteps echoed in the silent cave. Some rocks were like ghosts and beasts lurking in the darkness, ready to pounce on him, an intruder, to give him a fatal blow at any time.
At the beginning of the journey, he walked with horror, but after no accidents gradually happened, his tense nerves relaxed a little. Passing through the winding passages, a cave inside the mountain appeared in front of him.
It's not that big, about the size of an auditorium that can hold hundreds of people watching a movie. The space at the bottom is wide and the space above is small, shaped like a hat with a pointed top. The height between the bottom and the top of the cave is about 30 meters, and stalactites hang down like a piece of upside-down bamboo shoots, some are big and long, and some are squeezed together to form strange shapes. Many small holes were dug into the upper stone wall, round like honeycombs, but I don't know what they were used for.
"It seems that there is no danger." Ning Tao thought to himself, and stepped into the cave floor from the end of the passage.
But with this kick, the ground under his feet suddenly sank a little. He raised his head subconsciously, and at that moment, there was the sound of something rolling in the man-made round holes above the cave roof, and then large and small stones fell like raindrops!
Just now he was still wondering what those round holes were for, but now he knows that they are stones.
Panicked, Ning Tao tapped his feet and jumped back.
Boom!
A boulder suddenly rolled out from the side of the passage behind him, blocking the way back.
Ning Tao's back hit the boulder, and was bounced back under the counterforce. His sense of crisis climbed to a critical point, spiritual power surged out of the Niwan Palace, and the spiritual power sac was instantly formed. At that moment, a stone several times bigger than his head hit his head.
Boom!
a muffled sound,
He was smashed so badly that his skull seemed to be split open. In desperation, he raised his waist back, and when the stone fell from his head, his back was stuck against the boulder that blocked the passage.
boom!
Another stone landed on his instep again, and his mouth opened, but no sound came out.
Boom! Boom! bang...
Pieces of boulders fell from the top of the cave, making the ground tremble endlessly. That density, that area, not to mention people, even a bird can't escape the rain of stones!
If Ning Tao hadn't practiced this magical skill of self-cultivation casually, his little life might have been explained here.
The rain of stones stopped, but Ning Tao was still clinging to the boulder, with cold sweat on his forehead. The horrible experience just now also made him make up his mind. If he ventured into similar places in the future, he must be fully prepared before entering. Just now, if what fell was not a stone, but a spear or something, he would be dead, who would he turn to for justice?
After a few minutes of silence, Ning Tao removed the stone that was still pressing on his instep, and continued to move forward.
The ink in the earth-seeking inkstone was spilled when dodging the stone, but it was unnecessary. After entering the inner space of the cave, Ning Tao found a small field paved with spiritual soil, with an area of at least ten square meters!
This situation is indeed normal. Xuanjizi is the owner of the Xuntu Inkstone. If he lived for a thousand or two thousand years, it would not be surprising that he found so many spiritual soils with the Xuntu Inkstone.
There are several kinds of spiritual materials planted in the small spiritual field. He identified it carefully, and there was a ginseng plant with colorful leaves, and the colorful lights shone under the light, which was very magical. A wolfberry plant has dozens of black wolfberries on it, each crystal clear, like black jade beads. A radish, the leaves are white, and the little radish exposed outside the spiritual soil is green, like emerald. There is also a green onion, the whole body is blood red, the color and texture are like the best blood coral.
However, this is just a judgment made by Ning Tao based on the shape characteristics. As for whether the four spiritual materials are ginseng, wolfberry, radish and green onion, it is not known. His knowledge of comprehension is too lacking and needs to be recharged.
"The clinic has a small space, and there is no place to put the spiritual soil back. It's better to stay here and let the spiritual materials grow here. The spiritual soil in the clinic can also be taken here to expand the planting area." Ning Tao's heart is like this thinking.
After passing the "Lingtian" and walking forward for a while, a stone gate opened on the cliff came into Ning Tao's sight.
The stone door was tightly closed, and he tried to push it with his hand. I thought it couldn't be pushed, but the stone door opened after this push. When the stone door slid in, he quickly jumped aside to avoid the hidden weapons that might shoot out from inside.
No hidden weapon shot out from the stone gate.
Ning Tao returned to the door and took a photo with his mobile phone flashlight. He was stunned on the spot when he saw it.
Behind the stone door is a room with stone tables and bookshelves filled with books and bamboo slips. There was also a stone bed on which a mummy sat cross-legged.
There was only a layer of skin left on the face of the mummy, and the eye sockets were sunken, and there seemed to be nothing behind the eyelids. His clothes have long been weathered, and there is a dent on his bare chest, which looks like his ribs have been shattered by a slap. He held a fan in his right hand, and the fan was still in good condition, but a few bones were broken, and the paper stuck to the bones was also torn.
Ning Tao was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses. He walked into the stone house cautiously, thinking about a question in his heart, "Couldn't he be a mystery man?"
Yin Molan said that Emperor Xuan had crossed the catastrophe and ascended to immortality. If this mummy sitting cross-legged on the stone bed was Emperor Xuan, then he was not ascended to immortality, but to heaven.
Ning Tao's conjecture soon became true. A jade pendant hung around the mummy's waist, and the jade pendant was engraved with the words "Xuan Tianzi". That is to say, in the process of close inspection, he also confirmed that Xuan Tianzi's chest had indeed suffered a heavy blow, three ribs were broken, and one of them pierced into the place where the heart was.
Xuan Tianzi's death was obviously related to the wound he received in the chest.
Ning Tao took the fan out of Xuan Tianzi's hand, and it was heavy. The bones of the fan were made of spiritual material metal, and it was icy cold. Fan paper is not ordinary paper, but woven from plant fibers. After opening it, the words "unbreakable" were written on the fan.
Ning Tao smiled wryly, "What can't be broken, it's rotten like this, so what can't be broken? But this fan is cold, take it back and mend it with a rotten tripod, and it can also be used as an air conditioner fan. Just fan it to cool the air."
I don't know how Xuan Tianzi felt when he heard Ning Tao say this.
Ning Tao put the unbreakable fan on his trouser waist, and when he was about to go to the bookshelf to see if there were any useful books on cultivation knowledge, he suddenly found something sitting under Xuan Tianzi's buttocks, only revealing a corner.
"Senior Xuan Tianzi, I offended you." Ning Tao reached out and grabbed the horn before twitching.
Crash!
Xuan Tianzi's bones suddenly collapsed, his arms fell off, his ribs collapsed, his head rolled off his neck, rolled twice on the stone bed, and then fell to the ground.
Ning Tao opened his mouth wide and closed it after ten seconds, and then said, "I'm sorry."
Xuan Tianzi's buttocks are pressed with a piece of spiritual paper used by practitioners to draw talismans. This paper is made of the bamboo pulp of spiritual bamboo, and it will not weather for thousands of years. This kind of paper is extremely precious, and it is much more advanced than the special prescription signatures used by the Tianwai Clinic to write prescription contracts.
Ning Tao opened the spiritual paper and looked up.
It was written on the spirit paper: The Son of Heaven Xuan of the Dao has lived his whole life, and he is only one step away from crossing the catastrophe and ascending to the sky. However, good fortune tricks people, and he can only regret for life. In the Linguistic Era, the heavens and the earth were full of spiritual energy and spiritual materials. As long as a cultivator had the understanding and worked hard enough, he would have a chance to cross the last barrier and enter the fairy world. But now in this world, the aura is thin, and the cultivation resources are extremely scarce, even if the cultivation people have the resources of heaven, they can cross that barrier and enter the fairy world.
What is even more hateful is the lack of spiritual energy, the desire and demons grow wildly, creating countless new demons, and harming the world. If things go on like this, the world is in danger. This Dao has slain countless demons and demons in his life, defending the righteous way in the world, but he still missed in the end. A group of new monsters from the west set a trap, using the new monsters as a bait to trap Ben Dao in an ambush, but he knew his fate was not long after breaking out of the siege.
The Dao left this suicide note, and those who read the suicide note are the successors of the Dongfu of the Dao. Ben Dao has only one last wish, the leader of the group of new monsters is Adolf Sid. I hope you get rid of it, and the spirit of the original way in the sky can be at peace.
The stone forest on the mountainside is the magic circle left by the Dao, but it is a pity that the lack of spiritual energy has already failed. There is a secret passage under the square stele, and a secret passage under the stone bed. The entrance of the cave is closed, and the secret passage under the bed can be used to enter and exit the cave.
The suicide note was signed by Emperor Xuan.
"Adolf Sid?" Ning Tao stared at the name of the leader of the new demon on the suicide note, and for some reason he thought of a terrible character, Adolf Hitler.
But he then shook his head again, how is this possible? Although Xuan Tianzi didn't specify when he died, but in terms of the degree of weathering of his corpse, at least it has been hundreds of years. How could the leader of the new demon who set up an ambush to kill Xuan Tianzi be Adolf Hitler?
Ning Tao picked up Xuan Tianzi's head, put it on the stone bed, and then bowed deeply to Xuan Tianzi's bones, "I am the owner of the Tianwai Clinic, and it is my job to do justice for the sky. If the Adolf Sid that the senior said is still in this world, I will definitely avenge you and kill him." After a pause, he added, "I want to put the senior in the ground for peace, does the senior have any objections? "
Emperor Xuan obviously would not have any objections.
"Okay, I'll bury senior another day." Ning Tao bowed to Emperor Xuan's corpse again, and then went to the bookshelf.
The books and bamboo slips on the bookshelves are all related to cultivation, and they are all handwritten.
Ning Tao took down a copy of "Compendium of Spiritual Materials", and sat at the stone table to read it. In the book, he found a description of the four kinds of spiritual materials planted in the "spiritual field" outside. The colorful ginseng is called colorful ginseng, which can only be bred in valleys where rainbows often appear and are full of aura. The radish with white leaves is called emerald radish, and it can only be bred in emerald mines with aura. The blood-red scallions are called corpse onions, and they can only be bred on ancient battlefields where corpses are piled up like mountains. The wolfberry is called the devil's kidney, and it can only be conceived on the graves of those extremely vicious people.
These four spiritual materials are extremely precious, and they are all top-quality spiritual materials for refining elixirs. Especially the devil's kidney, people with kidney deficiency can get rid of deficiency and regain their glory by eating one.
Seeing this, Ning Tao immersed himself in the knowledge of "Compendium of Spiritual Materials", and did not draw a blood lock to leave Xuan Tianzi's cave until his phone ran out of battery.
Now, the cave in Jiange Mountain is also his cave, and he doesn't take any secret passages under the bed at all.